Transmigrating into a Chaotic Era: I Get a Life Simulator from the Start

Cang Wu transmigrated into a time of chaos and famine, becoming a young child with a sallow, emaciated face and an empty stomach, soon to be traded away by her family so they could eat her in place of their own child.

In her previous life, Cang Wu had been born into a powerful noble family, conquered the realm, and held the reins of power for decades. She looked down at her thin arms and legs. ...

How much meat could this little body have? It wasn't nearly enough to eat.

With a hellish script in hand, nothing to her name and not a single soldier at her command, Cang Wu looked at the pot beside her, almost boiling, and sighed softly.

A quarter of an hour later, her hands covered in blood, she ate her first full meal since transmigrating.

As she carefully washed the blood from her hands, a heavenly voice sounded in her ear.

"Ding. A change in fate has been detected. The Life Simulator System is now bound to you."

"One tael of silver per simulation. Fair prices, no one turned away."

Want to defy fate?

One tael of silver. Ten handfuls of buried bones. That is enough.

At that moment, the little child fought down the urge to vomit, the corners of her eyes red, yet her expression unnaturally calm.

From then on, she would stake her life on the edge of her sword.

Until decades later, the name of Great Emperor Cang Wu resounded throughout the Nine Peaks and Ten Cities of old.

Across the twenty-eight wastelands between earth and cloud, everyone had heard of her.

*

Thousands of years later, the Chronicle of the Cang Era described Cang Wu, the eternal emperor who unified the realm, like this:

"A ruler must be both merciless and compassionate. They must not be shackled by the common people, nor fail the people of the world."

"Establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, a destiny for the people, carry on the lost teachings of the sages, and bring peace to all generations."

To neither fall into humble beginnings nor be corrupted by great wealth is to see things through to the end.

This world has a thousand wonderful things.

Come, everyone, and contend for them.

Note:

* Her golden finger is a Life Simulator, something like: [At age one, you are born into a commoner's family and are not loved by your parents. At age two, your parents abandon you, but a kind person saves you. You learn a basic cultivation technique. Comprehension +1...] The story focuses on political schemes and nation-building, with an ensemble cast.

* "Establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, a destiny for the people, carry on the lost teachings of the sages, and bring peace to all generations" is a quote from Zhang Zai of the Northern Song.

Theme: Establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, a destiny for the people.